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I was hugely honoured yesterday to be one of two women awarded the Emma Humphreys individual prize, which this year was focused on “women who have challenged male violence against women through their writing.” The amazing Gabriella Gillsepie also won, and I’m thrilled to be joint winner with such an inspiring woman. I think yesterday was one of those days I’m never going to forget: I felt humbled and really quite overwhelmed by it all by the time I finally staggered into bed last night. Highlights of the day for me were sharing the stage with the other shortlisted candidates, and the fantastic reception we received from the crowd at the Feminism in London Conference where the awards ceremony took place. But do you…

I’ve done an interview with Phil over at All That Is Solid (formerly known as A Very Public Sociologist). For anyone still left reading this blog and wondering why I’ve been so quiet of late, the interview goes some way to explaining what’s been going on. You can read it here – Saturday Interview: Cath Elliott I’ll be back soon x

If you were following the #uNDC14 hashtag on Twitter last week you’ll have seen that despite our best efforts we didn’t manage to get the violence against women motions admitted onto the UNISON conference agenda. What we did manage to do however was ensure the issue wasn’t ignored. By anyone. I’ve put together a Storify that pretty much covers what happened – [View the story “Tell UNISON to…….” on Storify] – but I did just want to add a few more things myself. First off, for those who aren’t conference geeks and who have no idea what some of the jargon in that Storify means, here’s a brief timeline of what happened: On Monday 16th those of us involved in submitting the violence against…

That quote comes courtesy of Douglas Fox: As you might have noticed our old friend Douglas Fox is back in the news again, this time claiming credit for Amnesty’s new policy, sorry, consultation, on the decriminalisation of ‘sex work.’ Amnesty are obviously desperate to distance themselves from Fox, in fact they’re so desperate to distance themselves from him they’ve now put out two separate statements explaining his lack of involvement in anything to do with the new policy, sorry, consultation: Douglas Fox and Amnesty International Amnesty UK AGM’s Decisions on sex work to date Fox meanwhile has admitted that in 2008 he was busy urging his supporters in the ‘sex trade’ to join Amnesty and lobby from within to get the policy on ‘sex work’…

I know I haven’t been writing much recently, but even I wasn’t expecting the complete absence of posts here during April. Unfortunately though, April turned out to be one of those months where life just takes over. Where no matter what you have planned, something comes along that throws you completely off course. Some of you may remember the problems I had a few years ago that resulted in my having a hysterectomy: an operation incidentally, that failed to fulfil its promise of improving my housewifey skills. Well I’m calling this latest episode Fred and Barney’s revenge, only this time the mystery lump wasn’t in my uterus – well it wouldn’t be really would it, being as I don’t have one! – it was in my…

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